Silicon and thiourea synergy boosts wheat cultivars' grain quality under salinity via coordinated ion and antioxidant responses.

ABSTRACT: Salinity stress severely impacts wheat productivity and grain quality. This study investigated the effects of application of plant growth promoting substances (non-primed control (NP), hydropriming (HP), combined priming (1 mM silicon + 250 mg L^- 1 thiourea) (SiP + TUP), combined TU priming (250 mg L^- 1 thiourea) + Si foliar application (1 mM silicon) (TUP + SiF), combined TU foliar application (250 mg L^- 1 thiourea) + Si priming (1 mM silicon) (TUF + SiP) on salt tolerance and grain quality of two wheat cultivars (salt-tolerant Barzegar and salt-sensitive Amin) under three salinity levels (0.5, 4 and 10 dS m^- 1). The experiment used a completely randomized factorial design with three replications under greenhouse conditions. Salinity reduced gra

SUBMITTER: Gheisary E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12504422 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature